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Truth and clarity are complementary.

Niels Bohr

And anyone who thinks they can talk about quantum theory without feeling dizzy hasn’t yet understood the first thing about it.
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Feeling Talk Theory Thinking Understand
We are trapped by language to such a degree that every attempt to formulate insight is a play on words.
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Language Play Word
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
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Change Difficult Force Greatness Ourselves Thinking
Predition is risky, especially of the future.
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Funny Future Risk
Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.
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Education Learning Science
Truth is something that we can attempt to doubt, and then perhaps, after much exertion, discover that part of the doubt is not justified.
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Discovery Doubt Justice Science Truth
No paradox, no progress.
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One Liner Progress Science
What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.
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Experience Human Ideas Language Ourselves Science Word
We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct. My own feeling is that it is not crazy enough.
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Crazy Enough Feeling Theory
If you think you understand it, that only shows that you don’t know the first thing about it.
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Thinking Understand Yourself
You must come to Copenhagen to work with us. We like people who can actually perform thought experiments!
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Experiement People Science Work Yourself
Anyone who can contemplate quantum mechanics without getting dizzy hasn’t understood it.
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Science Understand
One must always do what one really cannot.
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Inspirational Oneself
If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
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Inspirational Life Science Thinking Understand
If you aren’t confused by quantum mechanics, you haven’t really understood it.
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Understand Yourself
A physicist is just an atom’s way of looking at itself.
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Science Way

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